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The Lusophone Hour

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This week, we embark on a musical tour of six Lusosphere countries: Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Portugal, and Brazil.

Lusophone refers to the Portuguese language, in the same way that the term Anglophonemeans English-speaking, or in the way that we apply Francophone to French speakers. The term Lusosphere refers to the actual countries where Portuguese (or a variant of) is spoken. The Lusophone world remains the colonial legacy of the former Portuguese Empire, split off from the Spanish Empire under Pope Alexander VI’s1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.

We next venture offshore to Cape Verde and feature a duet between fadista Ana Moura and Cape Verdean singer Sara Tavarescalled “De Nua.” Then, of course, no Lusophone playlist would be complete without a cut from Cape Verde’s most famous export, the late, great Cesária Évora, from herSão Vicentealbum, named for the small island in the Cape Verdean archipelago where she lived.

We then head over to the colonial motherland of Portugal by way of Cristina Branco, who, along with Ana Moura, Katia Guerreiro, and Mariza, is one of my favorite fadistas. We leave Portugal after listening to a more recent discovery: “Se Me Desta Terra for Vos Levarei Amor,” a love song by the young Portuguese singer, Filipa Pais.

Finally, we’ll end this week’s show with “Terra,” a song penned by Brazilian superstarCaetano Veloso during his detainment in a dark, humid prison cell for participating in protests against the military junta. It was 1969, and American astronauts had photographed Rarth from space for the first time. His wife had brought him a magazine, in which he’d seen those strikingly beautiful images—a radical counterpoint to his imprisonment and the political climate in Brazil at the time.